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Why is LinkedIn so cringe?
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Re: Why is LinkedIn so cringe?
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#193LinkedIn probably has a net benefit for your career by keeping up to date and checking the messages once a week, but I cannot get over the awkwardness of seeing total BS stories and thousands of replies saying "YES! AMEN!". "I was running late to an interview this morning but stopped to help a man who fell off of his bike and fixed it up for him. Afterwards I bought him a coffee and talked about life. He mentioned ho…
LinkedIn is my guess, the social media platform with the most reshares and least amount of new content. Everything I see is just a reshare of the same CEO message, or "hustle life" post. I would expect to find posts about career questions and what's a solution to my business issue but it's really just a rebadged Facebook.
I have to have a LinkedIn profile but I try to keep my profile very close to my reality, which means I look like an underachiever compared to my connections.
Re: Why is LinkedIn so cringe?
#194Once upon a time I used Linkedin to keep track of my contact list, which seemed to be its purpose back in the day.
It doesn't be so useful for that these days; especially since you can't get your contact data back out of the system anymore.
So I ended up removing my profile.
I keep meaning to hand-extract contact data so I can leave linkedin completely. Possibly I'll do that when I need to change my email later this year.
Meanwhile, has anyone noticed that you can't actually scrub the feed to get it completely empty? Even if you unfollow everyone and everything, and tell linkedin you're not interested in any activity whatsoever.
Re: Why is LinkedIn so cringe?
#195LinkedIn probably has a net benefit for your career by keeping up to date and checking the messages once a week, but I cannot get over the awkwardness of seeing total BS stories and thousands of replies saying "YES! AMEN!". "I was running late to an interview this morning but stopped to help a man who fell off of his bike and fixed it up for him. Afterwards I bought him a coffee and talked about life. He mentioned ho…
I always feel compelled to reply: "I was rushing to an interview still drunk from the night before. I hit a cyclist, but just turned on my wipers and got there in time. After waiting 30 mins they told me my interviewer had been involved in a tragic accident, but as I was here would I like their CEO job?" #KeepClimbing #PressureWashYourFender
it's called bowling
Re: Why is LinkedIn so cringe?
#196LinkedIn probably has a net benefit for your career by keeping up to date and checking the messages once a week, but I cannot get over the awkwardness of seeing total BS stories and thousands of replies saying "YES! AMEN!". "I was running late to an interview this morning but stopped to help a man who fell off of his bike and fixed it up for him. Afterwards I bought him a coffee and talked about life. He mentioned ho…
You only forgot one thing. The post would be written like this. This insufferable style of two line breaks between short sentences. Seems to be a requirement for LinkedIn viral content.
To be fair the opposite extreme (wall of text) is much much worse in terms of readability
Re: Why is LinkedIn so cringe?
#197Once upon a time I used Linkedin to keep track of my contact list, which seemed to be its purpose back in the day. It doesn't be so useful for that these days; especially since you can't get your contact data back out of the system anymore. So I ended up removing my profile. I keep meaning to hand-extract contact data so I can leave linkedin completely. Possibly I'll do that when I need to change my email later this…
facebook has similar issue. I ended up explicitly liking all the underwear ads - at least they look good
Re: Why is LinkedIn so cringe?
#198I deleted my profile a while back after a data leak and I was getting spammed on that email. The cringe factor of continually being "recommended" for crap was pathetic. That was even before the feed and the posts and the inspirational nonsense.
It's performative corporate wankery that HR people love because it lets them think that they're promoting their corporate owner's "triple bottom line" and "social stakeholders" and blah blah blah.
HR thinks that it needs to do this crap to motivate employees, it's like the "newsletters" and "employee of the month" etc.
Re: Why is LinkedIn so cringe?
#199LinkedIn probably has a net benefit for your career by keeping up to date and checking the messages once a week, but I cannot get over the awkwardness of seeing total BS stories and thousands of replies saying "YES! AMEN!". "I was running late to an interview this morning but stopped to help a man who fell off of his bike and fixed it up for him. Afterwards I bought him a coffee and talked about life. He mentioned ho…
I always feel compelled to reply: "I was rushing to an interview still drunk from the night before. I hit a cyclist, but just turned on my wipers and got there in time. After waiting 30 mins they told me my interviewer had been involved in a tragic accident, but as I was here would I like their CEO job?" #KeepClimbing #PressureWashYourFender
Oh God, humor. How unprofessional.
Re: Why is LinkedIn so cringe?
#200I don't get what's the big deal. Just unfollow everyone you connect with, disable all notifications, and check it once a week. That's what I do, and I see no "cringe". This way LinkedIn becomes just an "instant" messenger with a job board attached.
You can't eliminate other people's "cringe" but you can shield yourself from it very easily.